Validation of the general health questionnaire-12 using a sample of employees from England's health care services

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作者：
Hardy, GE
Shapiro, DA
Haynes, CE
Rick, JE
机构：
[1] Univ Leeds, Sch Psychol, Psychol Therapies Res Ctr, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England
[2] Univ Sheffield, Inst Work Psychol, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England
[3] Univ Sussex, Inst Employment Studies, Brighton, E Sussex, England
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PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT | 1999年 / 11卷 / 02期
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D O I：
10.1037/1040-3590.11.2.159
中图分类号：
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号：
040203 ;
摘要：
Psychiatric interviews were carried out to validate the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12; Goldberg, 1972) for use with staff of England's National Health Service (NHS), and to determine the appropriate threshold score to identify probable cases. In a sample of 551 NHS staff, the correlation between the GHQ-12 and the Clinical Interview Schedule-Revised (CIS-R) was found to be .70. The receiver operating characteristic showed that a 3/4 threshold, higher than used in all but one previous study, gave the best conservative estimate of minor psychiatric morbidity. This threshold gave an estimated sensitivity of the GHQ-12 of .69 and specificity of .88. It reduced case rates by between 8% and 17% as compared with lower possible thresholds. Convergent and discriminant validation of the GHQ-12 was demonstrated through comparison with other measures of mental and physical health.
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